Nuclear Weapons

In a slightly extended version of Two Weeks in Review, we take in fundamental questions about what happens when law and lawyers seek or refuse to justify illegal actions, “relocation orders” issued by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, Australian soldiers and Belgian consular officials in domestic courts for international crimes, the…

Nuclear sharing at the NPT RevCon On 27 April 2026, States will gather in New York for the start of the Eleventh Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The ‘RevCon’ comes at a particularly turbulent moment in time, marked by nuclear saber-rattling by Russia in the context of its war of aggression against Ukraine, a…

Yesterday, the United States joined Israel in its use of force against Iran by conducting a precision bombing operation targeting Iranian nuclear sites. Like Israel’s use of force before it, this use of force by the United States is, in my view, quite clearly illegal – a breach of the prohibition on the use of force…

In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Philippe Sands (University College London and 11KBW) and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh (University of Amsterdam and University of the South Pacific). The focus is on the advisory function of international courts and tribunals. In December 2022, the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International…